Help needed to create a new user

Cathy wrote in with this question recently:
"I'm new to the AS/400 and need help getting started. I have worked as an operator and know some of the basics, but now I have been put in charge of adding users, compiling, and a few other tasks. My first problem is creating a new user. I have mirrored another user?s profile, but the new user can't do anything."
What else does Cathy need to do? Can you help her out?
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All things being equal, when you copy an existing user the new user should behave the same.
You should determine what the initial program (INLPGM) parameter in the user profile is and what it's supposed to do. Most likely it's an application or menu that has its own security (e.g. what menu options is a user allowed to access). If that's the case, then you'd need to set up the new user in the application.
That's how things work at my company. We have to create a user profile, then add them to the application and tell the app what options they're allowed to access.

Hope this helps, it has me!
Common iSeries commands
DSPMSG Displays messages in queue
DSPMSGD Displays description of messages, ie CPF messages
WRKMSGF QCPFMSG Displays contents of MONMSG file
WRKUSRPRF - Can work with specified user's profile
WRKSBMJOB *JOB Displays my jobs for the current session
WRKACTJOB Displays all active jobs
WRKUSRJOB Displays list of my jobs to work with
WRKOBJ Work with an object. Use *ALLUSR in qualified name to skip Q libraries
WRKSPLF Displays spool files
WRKOUTQ Displays members in specified OUTQ
DISPLIB Displays contents of specified library
EDTLIBL Allows addition and deletion of libraries to and from list
ADDLIBLE Library Name Add library to current list
STRPDM Start PDM
STRDBG Start Debug
ADDBKP Add a break point and variables to monitor in debug
RMVBKP Remove a break point in debug
ENDDBG End Debug
STRDBU Start DBU (Database Utility) Look at and make changes to the database
DBU Qualified Name Runs DBU without the above command. ADDLIBLE DBU41 *LAST before using
STRDFU Start DFU (Data File Utility) Many of the same functions of DBU
DSPFFD Displays file field descriptions
DSPFD Displays file description for specified file
DSPPFM Displays member of a physical file
DSPDBF Displays contents of database file.
Must add TAATOOL to library list before using this command
DSPPGMREF Display the files used in a program and which libraries the program was compiled over
PRTRNG Will allow printing a range of pages from a member in the specified OUTQ.
Must add PRTRNG to library list before using this command
OUTQ(PRINTER) Mark object in spool file with 2 for change. Type this on the command line.
WRKJOBSCDE Look at scheduled jobs
RUNQRY QRYFILE(LIB/FILE) Run query on a file with no parameters
DSPDBR LIB/FILE Shows logicals related to a physical file
Miscellaneous:
F4 on a command line will take you to the Major Commands Menu
F9 on a command line will retrieve prior commands
F16 Displays User Defined Options
To compile a program without generating a new source object enter 14 for compile then F4. Press F10 for additional parameters. Under source listing options put *NOGEN
To end a job without creating a log. Enter the 4 and press F4, How to end *IMMED, Maximum log entries 0

If you created the user profile and signed on with that user, you should have either received a message on the screen or will have a joblog for the new user. Look at the joblog and that should tell you the problem. If there is no joblog, then it could be as Jaicee suggested in that the application logs the user right back off. Not a very user friendly app if it does that without sending some message. Need more details on what happened.

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